ADVISORY/Altera, Axis and Sun Microsystems Host Press Event at Design Automation Conference.

News, Assignment Editors/High Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Monday (June 5)

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WHO
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR), Axis Systems, Inc. and Sun
Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW)

WHAT
Executives from Altera, Axis Systems and Sun Microsystems will talk
about their partnership to boost design verification throughput. Axis
is presenting and demonstrating their new product family Xtreme using
SEmulation technology for fast simulation and emulation.

Speakers:
Erik Cleage, senior vice-president marketing, Altera
Mr. Cleage joined Altera in February 1986 as international marketing
manager. He also has served as director, Japan and Asia-Pacific sales.
Prior to Altera, Mr. Cleage held positions at Advanced Micro Devices
and Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation's Bipolar division.

Steve Wang, Vice President marketing, Axis Systems
Steve Wang is a co-founder of Axis Systems, and was a co-founder of
Precedence, a simulation company. He has held positions at Mentor,
Zycad and at Sun Microsystems, where he was involved with of system
verification.

Ken Okin, Vice President and General Manager, Workstation Products
Group, Sun Microsystems Computer Systems
Ken Okin oversees the group working on Sun's multi billion dollar
workstation product line and is responsible for the strategic
direction, product plans and delivery of Sun's current and future
workstation product line.

WHEN

Monday, June 5, 2000, 3-3:30pm
Room 516, above the West Hall in the Los Angeles Convention Center,
Los Angeles, Calif., USA Please let us know if you can attend or let
us know if you would like to arrange another time for a meeting or
product demonstration.

Agenda:
3:00-3:10 Steve Wang, Axis, Introductions and Product Overview
3:10-3:15 Erik Cleage, Altera, Partnerships and Technology
3:15-3:20 Ken Orkin, Sun, High-performance Workstations for
          Verification and Emulation
3:20-3:30 Demonstration of Embedded Internet Appliance Application

Press Contacts:
Jessica Rivera, Tsantes & Associates for Altera, 408/369-1500 ext. 37,
[e-mail]
Georgia Marszalek, ValleyPR for Axis Systems, 650-345-7477,
[e-mail]
Kasey Holman, Sun Microsystems, 650-786-3411, kasey.holman@Corp

More Information About the Companies:

Axis Systems, Inc. is a technology leader in the verification acceleration market. Founded in 1996, the company offers breakthrough technologies for verifying electronic systems and systems-on-a-chip designs. Customers include the world's leading networking and multimedia companies. www.axiscorp.com.

Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company(TM), was founded in 1983 and is a leading supplier of programmable logic devices and associated logic development software tools. Programmable logic devices are semiconductor chips that may be programmed on-site, using software tools that run on personal computers or engineering workstations. User benefits include ease of use, lower risk, and fast time-to-market. Altera's CMOS-based programmable logic devices address high-speed, high-density and low-power applications in the telecommunications, data communications, computer peripheral, and industrial markets. More information on Altera can be obtained on the www.altera.com.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- The Network Is The Computer(tm) -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to ".com" their businesses. With $12.4 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com.

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